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It's been a pretty decent day for western game announcements. First we had Idea Factory International bringing Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 over, and now Sega announced plans to release Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd in North America and E...

At the successful AnimeJapan 2014 event which drew about 111,000 attendees in two days on March 22-23, the exhibitors tried their best to hand out many kind of free promotional materials such as flyers, pamphlets, booklets, posters, stickers, clea...

Gargantia On The Verdurous Planet OVA The official site for Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet has updated with new information that was revealed at the AnimeJapan 2014 trade show this weekend in that the property will be getting a new two part OVA...

Copies of Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen manga were temporarily removed from 13 elementary and middle schools in Osaka's Izumisano City. Nakazawa's manga that tells the story of survival after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Amphibian invader comedy Sgt Frog returned to anime for the first time in nearly three years this week with a new Sunrise Flash anime directed by Haruki Kasugamori. Cast on the older anime returns, but these are joined by Aoi Yuki (Madoka Magica...

Nahoko Uehashi, author of anime-adapted novel series Moribito and Erin, has won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award, the children's literature equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The author was informed by the Japanese Board on Books for Youn...

Sentai Filmworks Announces Large July 2014 Anime DVD/BDRelease Slate Posted by Chris Beveridge March 25, 2014 at 10:30 AM Sasami-san@Ganbaranai Episode 2 The summer season does often see a lot of releases coming out as the distributors get what th...

Hello everyone, Kahotan here! (@gsc_kahotan) I'm really bad at Othello… however I'm not bad at Tetris! Puyopuyo is pretty much impossible for me… and when playing Super Smash Bros I'll tend to get knocked off the screen within the first five seconds.

ufotable, the studio who adapted prequel Fate/zero, will be revisiting the families and Grail War a generation later in the Fate/stay night anime. Following AnimeJapan 2014, a new site update has presented the latest visual.

Japan is fond of the cute mascot characters that are known as "moe" characters, with even temples using moe characters to attract more visitors. Now, electronics company SHARP has come up with an idea for a new version of their robot vacuum that u...

If you happen to be a PlayStation Plus member and never tried a Monster Hunter game now's the time. Sony Computer Entertainment will be hooking up PlayStation Plus members with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for free, starting March 25th for PlaySta...

Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 3DS will feature black outlines around the game's characters, in order to make them easier to see on the device's smaller screen, when things get too hectic. Depending on your preference, these outlines can be left on...

Experience, the makers of Demon Gaze, was working with Cyberfront on a sequel to Labyrinth Cross Blood: Infinity. While Cyberfront dissolved their gaming division, Experience's dungeon RPG was not canceled.

Square Enix recently launched Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster, which for the first time in a decade brings together two of their classic PlayStation 2 RPG's which personally served as my welcoming to the RPG market as a whole.

With certain varieties of sakura trees already covered in pink blossoms, Japan has got cherry trees on the brain. Everyone is looking forward to go out and see the flowers that'll only be here for a short time, but why settle for one Japanese trad...

Marvelous AQL has recently released a PV for their upcoming ninja action game, Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson and surely enough, it features plenty of ninja action and of course, clothes getting ripped off.

To stop Japanese teens from smoking, Okayama Prefecture released an anti-smoking anime. It's over seven minutes long and features crap animation. Titled "Tabako wa Dasai" (たばこはダサい) or "Cigarettes Are Lame," the anime was created with the cooperati...

S Over the past few weeks I have looked at both the series and movie of popular classic anime Cowboy Bebop. And as the PlayStation 2 game Cowboy Bebop: The Serenade of Reminiscence never left Japan, I just knew I had to play it as well.

Tweet Pin It Rebecca Flint (a. k. a. Beckii Cruel) is a British Pop and Dance singer. Her popularity rose in Japan rose after her YouTube videos of her dancing to J-Pop were spread around the Internet.

In commemoration of the Blu-ray box release of the TV series Galaxy Express 999, Seibu Railway has announced a "Galaxy Express 999 wrapped train. " The train is in service now for roughly half a month until April 4.

Publisher Seven Seas announced its latest manga license with the addition of No Game, No Life, the manga written by Yuu Kamiya and illustrated by Mashiro Hiiragi. The first volume is set to arrive in October.

King Records began streaming a fifth TV spot on Monday for the anime of Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga. The video introduces the character Lalah Hiyama and uses the anime's opening theme "Sidonia" by musical duo angela.

Sega recently released more of its Sega 3D Classics games&mdash;which we got the first wave of in the west&mdash;on Nintendo 3DS in Japan. 3D After Burner II arrived in December, Fantasy Zone hit the eShop on March 19, and it looks like 3D OutRun ...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Blue, originally released on PSP, is coming to PS Vita in Japan as The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Blue Evolution. This week's issue of Dengeki PlayStation magazine dates the port, which is set to launch on June 12.

Yen Press and Square Enix just announced a partnership to put eBook versions of 175 manga titles online, giving the English-language versions of Square Enix's manga worldwide reach. Starting April 8, you'll be able to access some of Yen Press's mo...

There will be a total of 40 songs in Sega's upcoming Vocaloid rhythm game Hatsune Miku Project Diva F 2nd. The Dengeki PlayStation magazine has revealed the final 2 songs that will be featured in the game: Hatsune Miku no Gekishou by cosMo@Bousou-...

Hakaider rides a Bike in Kikaider REBOOT & Tokugawa Yoshimune joins Battride War II Here's a Scan of Hakaider from Kikaider REBOOT. It features him riding a bike by Kawasaki. Maybe they are shifting from Honda to Suzuki, right now.